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Re: [PLUG] grepmail + maildir
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> > Other than using more inodes, is there a big difference in space used
> > just bzipping individual mail files instead of putting in an mbox and
> > bzipping that?
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> Yes. bzip can take advantage of all the text in 64k worth of e-mail much
> better than inside each individual mail file. Plus, less headers.
I just ran a quick test. 40MB of email compresses to 20MB as a
tar.bz2, and 25MB as a collection of bz2 files. I *think* the
12.5% difference will be fairly consistent (assuming the same mix
of ascii/binary mail) since my test-case is larger than bz2's
block size of 900k (default).
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Chris Cera http://cera.us
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